The NASA Flight and Rocketry Lab houses flight simulators and a STEM lab for developing high-power rockets and small payloads for space flight. This facility provides support for the following CAE programs: • NASA Flight Training Aerospace Education Laboratory (AEL): funded through a NASA Glenn Research Center award, this program high-tech computer-base classroom designed to give students in grades 7-12 a project-based learning environment for applying skills in math and science. Students work at a variety of interactive stations to explore either: • High-Power Rocketry Lab: this STEM-based lab is equipped to support student research in high-power rocketry [involving rockets using motor impulse rating up to O (4960 Ns) at certified Level 3] and the esign and fabrication of small payloads (up to approximately 7 kg). The lab includes a shake table, vacuum chamber, wind tunnel, zero-G drop tower and electronics lab as well as an outdoor static rocket motor test facility). See this link for more information on the resource capacity of this lab. • Hawaii Space Grant Consortium: students funded through HSGC fellowships carry out their research projects at this lab. • Project Imua Headquarters: funded through HGSC, Project Imua is a joint faculty-student enterprise of multiple University of Hawai‘i Community College campuses devoted to the development of high-power rockets and small payloads for space flight while providing undergraduates with project-based learning opportunities in STEM fields. |
Location: The NASA Flight & Rocketry Lab is located at 'Imiloa 112 at Windward Community College.
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A Virtual Reality simulator that allows students to engage in the multi-task experience for flight. Participants can choose from a variety of vehiclesfrom a Skyhawk-172 aircraft to a 747 commercial jet to NASA's Space Shuttle
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A research-grade wind tunnel provides students the opportunity to explore the physics of fluid and aerodynamics.
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A Drop Tower that enables students to experiment with zero gravity.
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WCC joins with 32 other colleges, universities and science centers across the nation in this joint educational venture with NASA.
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